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now settled in Ladak as landed proprietor, who knows very well 

 Turkish, Persian, besides Hindostani and Tibetan ; our chief Ti- 

 betan Interpreter was Mani. Both Makshut and Mani, had former- 

 ly been travelling with the Stracheys in their expeditions to Tibet; 

 Makshut, now a pretty aged man, was also at one time the compa- 

 nion of Moorcroft. Our brother's Interpreter seems to have been 

 the run away Munshi ; also Abdullah is missing here.] 



Nobody understood the Sahibs speech in the country, they 

 searched therefore for somebody who could understand him, in 

 hope of finding some one who could understand Hindostani or Pan- 

 jabi. I was in confinement and they took me to the place. Haji 

 Mfsser told me to ask the Sahib why he had come there. I asked 

 the Sahib, he replied that there was Shazadah, son of Mohammad 

 Shah, living in the Andishan country, and he had visited him (Mr, 

 Schlagintweit in Lahor and said " do you come to Andishan, 

 Sahib and I will establish friendly relations between the Navab of 

 Andishan and the Sahibs, that it was on this account that he was 

 on his way to Andishan." Haji Mfsser confiscated all the Sahib's 

 property and put the Sahib in confinement, and sent him to Zullah 

 Khan, a principal Sirdar. When they put the Sahib in confine- 

 ment he said to me : " no one here understands my language, and 

 my belief is, that these people will kill me, should you go to that 

 side of the country, by Kulu, tell this matter to Hay Sahib ; if you 

 go by Kashmir tell it to whatever Sahib you meet." After this the 

 Sahib went away. On the day that the Sahib went to Sirdar Zul- 

 luh Khan, on the same day the Chinese force came to fight with 

 the Andishanis, and the Andishanis fought for half an hour and 

 then ran away and took the Sahib with them. When the Chinese 

 force came all the Andishan Kardars ran away, and we forty or 

 fifty men who were in confinement got free. I afterwards heard 

 the Dil Khan, the great chief of the Andishanis had taken the 

 Sahib's property and put him to death, but I only heard this from 

 the report of travellers of Kasgar and Yarkand, I did not see it 

 with my own eyes. 



Question : Do you know any thing of the property of the Sahib 

 or his servants ? 



Answer : No, I do not know any thing about them. I only saw 



